Finally we can interpret JavaScript at run-time on our underpowered netbooks and download all our files over our low-throughput and metered wireless links! Why didn't anyone come up with this before?

Affirmative, nor do I like emacs style interfaces.

It's missing the most important aspect of a Facebook game: The "Post on you wall?" that should appear every time you click on you cow.

Why exactly doesn't installing into the cache count?

You've can download, press OK and run an executable EXE or download an HTML file that links to an executable JavaScript program, skip the prompting and run it in a sandbox.

EXE don't /have/ to be self extracting archives, though they often are.

Honestly, I've just never understood why I'd want to run a whole program inside my web browser.

The language originally proposed for Netscape Navigator, before "needs to become popular" and "remind people of Java" ruled it out.

Meh, IRC has been used for this purpose for a long time. Switching to the centralised Twitter service for increased anonymity is just an evolution, not a revolution.

And if the user turns out to never touch the mouse? Keylogging every single character pressed? This is plain absurd.

Hence online. Except you define "online" as will run inside a tiny subwindow of your /browser/ -- without annoying Windoze-XP style "Are you sure?" pop-ups!

[quote]The servers, and companies running these TLDs are american companies running their servers in the US.[/quote]
Thus the US can seize these servers under special circumstances. Now, forbidding them to disclose (IP) addresses of other servers, located abroad, that are *accused* of braking USA law is a different matter.

When did disclosing addresses become illegal in the USoA?

In my experience, old versions of MSIE don't work so well with Hotmail. I've had to use a Firefox installation in my "My Documents" (sadly, ~ was locally hosted due to Windows storing it straight on C:) when students couldn't download homework attached to self-sent email (as they couldn't ((f)user)mount their $HOMEs on school PCs).

The definition of Y in lambda calculi.

But really, don't put this thing in a too obvious place: you may regret it. Your forehead would be a fine compromise.

The domain doesn't tell you at all where the hosts are located, and you can't trust the IPs as they're all routed through AOL (it bein it's own ISP).

Both may the IPs seem to refer to US hosts, and if you're wearing a tin-foil hat they could easily "spoof" IPs (pick some IP that's supposedly allocated for servers in the USA), add/remove traceroute info, tunnel packets through their datacenters, and do about anything but artificially remove latency. Also, where are actual ICQ messages routed through and logged?

Almost all word documents should be sent in plain text anyway (and most of the rest should probably be in RTF).

And try to at least read the four line summary when the subject doesn't make sense to you, even on /.